Record-leaf.



PATENTBD MAY 10, 1904.

E. W. GRUIKSHANK.

RECORD LEAF.

APPLIGATIoN FILED rm. 1, 1904.

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PATENT OEEICE.

RECORD-LEAF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,679, dated May 10,1904.

Application filed February l, 1904. Serial No. 191,573. (No model.)

To all whom t mur/y concern:

Be it known that I, EnNEs'i VVELLs CRUIK- si-IANK, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, haveinvented a new and useful Record-Leaf, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a record-leaf combined withcommunication-blanks; and the principal object of the invention is toprovide, in combination with a plurality of invoiceforms, letter-heads,note-heads, or the like, a record-leaf so arranged relatively7 to theinvoice-forms or letter-heads that carbon copies may be made directlyupon both sides of the record-leaf when the invoice-'forms orletterheads are used and the record-leaf bearing the carbon transcriptson both sides be then separated from the invoice-'forms or letterheadsand filed in a suitable binder as a daybook or journal leaf.

As is well known, the ordinary procedure in recording the shipments ofgoods is to make out the invoice in copying-ink, to take a letter-presscopy from the invoice after it is filled out, and then copy from theletter-press copy of the invoice into the day-book or journal. This modeof procedure is tedious and is also objectionable, because theletter-press copies made from the invoice are often so indistinct thatit is extremely diiiicult if not impossible to make entries therefrominto the day-book or journal without error. It is therefore extremelydesirable to provide some means whereby at the time the invoice is madea duplicate thereof may be made upon the leaf of the day-book orjournal. The device forming the present invention, and hercinafter fullydescribed and claimed, forms means whereby the desired record may be ob--tained when the invoices or letters are written out, and when theinvoices or letters are detached from the record-sheet it will be readyfor filing in a binder. The posting of the accounts to a ledger may thenbe made directly from the record-sheet in the day-book or journal, andno copying from a letter-press copy of the original invoice or letternecessary.

In describing the invention reference is had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which I have illustrated an embodiment of the invention inwhich the record-sheet is 'combined with invoice-forms; but it isobvious that the ruling of the invoice-forms and the recordsheet may bevaried without departing from the invention and that the device may sobe adapted for use in record ing letters instead of invoices.

In the drawings, Figure l is a frontview of the record-leaf with theinvoice-forms attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a rear View of the record-leafwith the invoice-forms attached thereto. Eig. 3 is an end view of therecordleaf with the invoice-forms folded thereon in position to receivecopying-sheets between the forms and the record-leaf.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the record-leaf, preferablyprovided with openings B B near one margin to receive the securingmembers of a suitable binder and being numbered at the upper corneropposite the binding-margin. As both sides of the record-leaf are to bemade use of, one side is numbered 1 and the other side .is numbered 2.At each side of the record-sheet and separated thercfrom by a row ofperfor-ations C there are arranged a plurality of invoiceforms I). Theinvoice-:forms at the right side of the leaf are printed on the frontsurface and those upon the left side of the sheet are printed upon therear surface, so that when the combined structure is folded, as shown inFig. 3, the record-leaf is interposed between the two sets ofinvoice-forms.

Each invoice-'form is separated :from the adjacent invoice-form by rowsE of perforations perpendicular to the rows C, and when the invoices areiilled out they are detached by tearing along' the lines of perforationsin the usual manner.

In making out invoices and making records thereof at the same time acarbon-sheet is placed between one set of forms and the record-sheet,and the invoice-forms of that set are then lilled out with pen, pencil,or type-writer, as may be preferred. The invoices beingl filled out, thesheet of carbon-paper is removed-:from between the 'forms andtherccord-leaf and the invoices are separated from the record-leaf bytearing along the lines (l of j ierforations. The other set ofinvoice-forms will then be IOO filled out in a similar' manner, a sheetof carbon being interposed between the forms and the other side of therecord-leaf. All the invoice-forms having been filled out and detachedfrom the record-leaf, duplicates of the invoices will be presented uponthe two sides of the record-leaf and the leaf will then be ready forfiling within the temporary binder in lieu of an ordinary day-book leaf.

When the record-leaf is combined with noteheads, bill-heads, orletter-heads, the mode of using the device is precisely similar, exceptthat instead of invoices letters, bills, or other communications will bewritten.

While I have shown the invention as embodied in a device in which eachrecord-leaf is associated with siX invoice-forms, three upon each sideof the leaf, it is obvious that the leaf may be made smaller or larg'er,as desired, and the number of forms associated therewith varied to suitthe circumstances of any particular case. Thus it may be desirable toprovide only one invoice-form on each side of the record-leaf, or, onthe other hand, it may be desirable to provide half a dozen forms oneach side of the leaf.

Having thus described the nature and use of my invention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

A record-leaf similarly ruled upon the reverse and obverse and havingattached thereto at opposite sides a plurality of sheets separated fromthe record-leaf by weakened lines, one of said sheets being providedupon the obverse with printed matter and the other sheet being providedupon the reverse with printed matter.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ERNEST WELLS CRUIKSHANK.

Witnesses:

J. FORNEY YOUNG, JoHN C. ToLsoN.

